Generation facebook

el Kuarlos said:
You guys all for real?

First off facebook isnt a replacement for a social life, it is a healthy addition.

I am in touch with many many people who I get on with, every so often we meet up, this would not happen without facebook.

It simply makes staying in touch much, much easier, and if you are of the opinion it is 'stalking' or agree with tibsey, then the problem is with you. Same goes for people who collect friends or post pictures because they think they are cool, ect.

Facebook is mint, it is useful and convenient and free. As stated if people see it negativley they should probably clean their own back garden first- if you empathise with the bloke in tibesy's vid...you have issues.
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I was with you up until 'mint'.
 
I think Facebook is actually pretty good in that it has become so mainstream that online communication (outside of email) is now much more socially acceptable.

The one downside however is that newcomers aren't really used to the traditional online multitasking e.g. having 10 windows open surfing / playing games / etc and think you are 'ignoring' them if you don't write anything in chat for five minutes.

Also I suspect for school kids there may be some kind of keeping up with the jones' i.e. if you don't have at least 100 friends of which 30%+ are of the opposite sex, you are a complete loser. I once sat on a train and could some teenagers talking about how many 'likes' their status had got...
 
and update my status every time I take a ****, I don't think so.
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That is your call. Some do. I think you and I know them as weirdos.

You will meet them. To restate facebook isnt a replacement for everyday life no more than cb radio was. It just helps.

I was with you up until 'mint'.
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That is fair enough...I have no excuse.
 
I hate Facebook. I have never seen so much narcissism, gossip and bragging. I think it has become a shrine to people’s egos and I am still so amazed that so many fall for this. I believe it brings out the absolute worst in many and for that I have ended friendships. I’d cringe when I’d see some of my friend’s updates and think, “how in the hell am I friends with this person?”

I hope it dies very fast. Call me email or **** off!
 
Seriously though- how is it different silvers?

People you dont really like but are polite to...some people you exchange with for the sake of it...some people are true friends and are honest with...

All much, much easier and much faster.

How the heck is this a bad thing?
 
I suppose it works like this. In the days when internet was too complicated for most of general public, as it required full qwerty keyboard and shell to fire up your dial up connection, people would "social network" on irc and post angry rants on usenet with cli clients. At that point they would be known to each other as R4zor or -=[shady]=- and internet was world of opportunities.

Then came the early adopter generation, they knew how to use qwerty keyboard and two button mouse with which they would double click a proggy to start their dial up. They social networked on isrc with mIRC and post angry rants on usenet with Forte Agent would be known to each other as razor74 or SHADY14. And boy did they look lame and funny to R4zor and -=[shady]=-....

Then came the AOL generation. They knew how to use two button mouse and couldn't get to irc with mirc, as it was too complicated to start up, so they social networked with AOL instant messenger and typed short angry messages on AOL community pages. They were known to the online world as jsharp80 or mary_s15 and boy, did they look lame and funny to razor74 or SHADY14.

Then came the DSL flood wave. They knew how to use scroll wheel and left button, social networked on MSN and typed angry sentences on internet forums. They would join internet as johny.edge1980@hotmail dot com and melaniebrown16@btinternet dot co.uk and boy, did they look lame and funny to jsharp80 or mike_s15.

It then turned out the AOL generation had offspring, and they had one button mouse, and would social network on facebook and write angry txtspk oneliners on twitter. They would spill onto the internet as James Sean McKnife from Sheffield, born 10 July 1995, likes "COD, lolcats and Justin Bieber" and Shaniqua Melanie Gray, age 17 of Shipwreck Estate, Sheerness, currently "Bord + leesnin 2 beoncy on me eyepod" but wants you to follow her life on twitter. And boy, do I even need to finish this sentence.. ;)
 
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I've found that no one emails any more. If I want to keep in contact with my friends I need to be on Facebook whether I like it or not.

Thing is though, I do like it most of the time so it's not a problem.

Whoever said about the satisfaction of trimming through your friends list every now and then, is definitely right. I don't know how many times I've done it, but far too many. I don't mind making new friends, as right now I see this as networking. I often share things such as my creations and other things that I make etc on Facebook, and I always wonder if people will see the work and then share it around. I've actually scored paid work through a friend of a friend on Facebook before, to give you an example.

If I accept the add from said random person though and they turn out to be a moronic dreg, then i'll just delete them.

My main sections of contacts are the Admin and moderation team of a website I help moderate, school friends that I still talk to, people from uni, members of an organisation I belong with, and then just my general real life friends :)

One thing I do do on Facebook is I delete unwanted things from my wall every couple of days. I have no massive backlog of ****, telling people I've commented on someones picture or something, I just take it all off and keep it trim. Sometimes the things I say don't need to be read in a months time by some random person scanning my wall.

I don't do IM anymore either, so really I just check Facebook maybe once or twice a day, maybe more if I am posting up work of mine or just making a status and reading replies. More time is spent on forums though. I do know I should knock back on both Facebook and Forums though, just doesn't always happen.
 
Heh, facebook is what you make out of it. Facebook isn't crap, it's pretty good for a free service. It's the people that use that make it crap. If you're sick of the stupid status updates you can hide them from your news feed or delete that person. You actually have a lot of freedom with how you can modify it to suit you.
 
KizZ said:
Heh, facebook is what you make out of it. Facebook isn't crap, it's pretty good for a free service. It's the people that use that make it crap. If you're sick of the stupid status updates you can hide them from your news feed or delete that person. You actually have a lot of freedom with how you can modify it to suit you.
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Like many applications and sites on the Internet, it's not the site, but how people use the site. Unfortunately there are SO MANY of them that use it in an annoying way that I can't be arsed with it.
 
I love the fact a bunch of forumites are whinging. Yes it is a bit annoying that some people post every tiny detail of their boring lives, but they are having fun and socialising at the end of the day and likely with people they know. And if you don't like what your "friends" say then why are you their friend, or did you just add them to get angry at them?

It is what you make of it. I find it very handy for sharing funny links, music, chatting with friends, knowing when stuff is happening and insulting idiots (mac fanbois).

However us lot on a forum at night talking to a load of randoms is cool....
 
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Facebook is OK. I don't add chavs, idiots or just people in general that will annoy me. I've only got people I actually know and family added.

You know, you don't have to use Facebook guys. It's optional. :)
 
Humans have a instinctual urge to share information. Unfortunately 99.999999% of it is completely useless but thanks to facebook it is now reaching you.

Maybe someone could come up with a gene therapy that fixes the useless-gossiping-urge gene.
 
Nate Silvers said:
I hate Facebook. I have never seen so much narcissism, gossip and bragging. I think it has become a shrine to people’s egos and I am still so amazed that so many fall for this. I believe it brings out the absolute worst in many and for that I have ended friendships. I’d cringe when I’d see some of my friend’s updates and think, “how in the hell am I friends with this person?”

I hope it dies very fast. Call me email or **** off!
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THEN WHY ARE YOU USING IT!

"Todge is eating a cheeeeeeeeeeese burrrrrrrrgerrrrrrr. mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm"
 
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